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Cressy, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It stands on Woodward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Cressy within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Cressy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRED BIRD LANE
26 April 2001Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cressy in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 6 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Heavy RainCressy-The cooperative observer in Cressy measured 1.77 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period.
July 2021Heavy RainCressy-The cooperative observer at Cressy measured 5.14 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period ending at 7 am EDT. An additional 0.95 inches of rain fell during the previous 24 hours, bringing the 48-hour and storm total amount to 6.09 inches.
May 2010Heavy RainCressy-A volunteer weather observer reported that 1.39 inches of rain fell in Cressy between 4 and 6 pm.
May 2010Heavy RainCressy-A volunteer weather observer measured 1.39 inches of rainfall in Cressy between 6 and 8 pm.
May 2010Heavy RainCressy-A volunteer weather observer reported 2.78 inches of rainfall in Cressy since 8 am.
May 2010Flash FloodCressy-Noland Creek Road was completely impassable due to water flowing over the road 8 miles north northwest of Irvine.
June 2009Heavy RainCressy-A coop observer measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.77 inches in Cressy.
April 2008Flash FloodCressy-Parvin Road was closed due to high water over a bridge.
June 2008HailCressy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Estill County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Iron Mound0.7 miles15
Palmer1.6 miles15
The Forks (historical)2.5 miles15
Kimbrell3.0 miles12
Sams (historical)3.1 miles15
Bogie (historical)3.2 miles15
Hargett3.3 miles15
Spout Springs3.5 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122596316The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507779. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.